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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02
GENERAL W. B. HAZEN.
Unexpected Death of the Chief Sig
nal Officer.

Unexpected Death of the Chief Sig
nal Officer.
General ". B. Hazen, Chief Signal Officer,
U. S. A., died of diabetic coma, few even
ings ago in Washington. He suffered from
diabetes for some years, but of late had i'm
proved in health and strength, and hopes
were entertained Of his complete recovery.
At the recent reception of the Diplomatic
Corps given by the President he took
severe cold, which ultimately caused his
death.
General Hazen was born at West Hart.
ford, Vt, on Sept. g., 1880. His father
moved to Ohio few years later, and in 1851
young Hazen was appointed cadet in the
United States Military Academy at West
Point He graduated in 1855, and was
breveted a second lieutenant in the Fourth
Infantry. He became Colonel OF the Forty
first Ohio Volunteers on October ~. 1851.
He was made B,igadier General Of Vol
unteers on November %, 1862, and
for gallant and meritorious service in
the battle of Chickameaga was
breveted Major in the regular army. On
March Ii, 1865, he was breveted maJor-gen-
eral, having been promoted to be major
general of volunteers on Dec. l5, 1864:
When the war closed he was in command OF
the Fifteenth Army Corps. He was mustered
out of tho volunteer service on January Is,
1866. He was commissioned Colonel OF the
Thirty.eighth Regular Infantry and after
ward of the Sixth. and during the Russo
Turkish war in 1867 he was United States
Military Attache at Vienna.
On December Is, 1880, he was appointed
Chief Signal Officer, with the rank OF Brig
adier-General, and that position he contin-
ned to hold until his death. He leaves wife
and one son, both of whom are in Paris.
Lieut. Greeley. of Arctic exploration fame,
Assistant Signal Officer, probably will be
made Chief. 1t was understood when be was
appointed that Gen. Hazen would retire
before long.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

The latest thing in book advertising
has been devised by French publishing
firm. A large number of men are made
to walk in single file along the most fire.
quentcd streets, apparently intent upon
reading an open book, which they hold
out before them with both hands, so that
the back of the book can be seen. Th
public naturally wishes to know the title
of this work CT such absorbing interest,
and finds on looking that it is newly.
published novel. 1t is hardly necessary
to add that several of the hired me-,
could not read line of it to save thcil
lives
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

Knox County, Ohio, has been infested
with rats and mice, and few days ago
a hunt was organized to rid the neigh
borhood of these pests. The ratcatchers
divided into two parties of fifty hunters
each, and began operations, the under
standing that the losers should give the
winners an oyster supper. The result
was that one side brought in 5,S57 rat
tails and 1,7O7 mice-tails, and the other
side 2,ssG rat-tails and 1872 mice-tails.
Total, S,743 rats and ,, 4s0 mice slaugh-
tered, or grand total of II, e3e.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

1T is high time for Alabama, as well
as other Southern States, to do something
to encourage and induce white farmers
to seek homes and settle among US, says
the Montgomery (Ala.) Adrertiser. "Over
400, 900 Immigrants came to this country
last year, but comparatively few OF them
came South. The Northwest attracted
them. The tide can be turned this way.
The sooner the better"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

A NEST Of six boilers at the engine house
on the Delaware and Hudson Canal I0ni-
pany's railroad near Fairview, Penn, bic"
up the other morning Hawley Weed, the
engineer, and Perry Parsons, fireman, were
fatally injured.
REV. SAM JONES, the Southern revivallst,
addressed two large Sunday audiences III
Boston
REV. DR.. McGLYNN, the New York Catho
lie priest who followed the political fortunes
of Henry George in defiance of his ecclesl-
proceed to Rome and explain his actions, mas
been suspended and another priest appointed
to take charge of his church. His suspen
sion caused great dissatisfaction among MS
old parishioners and an indignation meeting
was held.
FIVE masked men, attempting to rob
train near Sheridan station, Penn were pur
sued by the trains crew. One OF them treu a
upon fireman, wounding him in the leg. All
the thieves escaped.
McQUADE, the New York Doodle" Alder
man, having been refused stay OF proceeo-
ings, was taken to Sing Sing
JONAS G. CLARK has given 1000, 600 to
found q college at Worcester, Mass, to be
called Clark University.
Hon. GEORGE GRAY, who is completing
Secretary Bayard's unexpired term as
United States Senator from Delaware, has
been elected to serve as Senator for SIX
years.
PROFESSOR EDWARD L. YoUMANs, the
distinguishei writer and lecturer on scien-
tiic subjects, editor Of Popular Science
Monthly, diei in New York City few days
since, aged sixty-six years.
GOVERNORS BEAVER, Of Pennsylvania,
Green, of New Jersey, and Briggs, OF Deia-
ware, were inaugurated on the 18th at the
respective State capitals.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature has elected
Matthew Stanley Quay to the United States
Senate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02
DESTRUCTIVE DROUGHT.
Thirty Thousand Sufferers i'll Texas
"A Committees Report.

Thirty Thousand Sufferers i'll Texas
"A Committees Report.
A committee appointed to investigate as to
the suffering from tho drought prevalent
over q large section of Texas has sub nltted
its annual report to the State legislature
The committee state that there is largo
section of the State west and north # tho
Bra oi River, and extending as far down as
the lower edge of Hamilton County, which
has been visited by one of the most deitruc.
tive droughts ever known i'll the history. of
Texas. The report states that i'll this region
there are ut least 81, GOO persons who are, or
soon will be, absolutely destitute, ana who
cannot possibly subsist without immediate
asst tance The committee recommends an
appropriation of SlOo,O 900 for the immediate
relief of the sufferers under such provisions
as may be deemed best until crops can be
grown.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02
Foreign.


The new members of the British Cabinet
have Teen formally installed, the ceremony
consisting of the Ministers receiving the
seals of Office and kissing the Queens hand
as she notified them of their appointment.
CARDINAL FERRIERI is dead. He was
born in Italy in 1910, and was created a
Cardinal in 1868.
GREAT excitement has been created
throughout Germany by the defeat of Prince
Bismarck's Army bill in the Reichstag, fol-
lowed by a decree of Emperor William dig
solving the Imperial Parliament and fixing
February 81 for the holding of new elections.
The defeated Army bill had been declared
by General Won Moltke absolutely necessary
for the safety of Germany, and in the COM
ing elections the Government will try to oo-
tam majority of members of the Relchstag
favorable to the measure.
A SPANISH bullfight has been one OF the
attractions of Paris There were 10, 200 spec
tatorS.
THE Canadian Parliament has been dis
solved and new elections ordered.
CORNWALL, Ontario was inundated by an
overflow of the St. Lawrence. Much prop
erty was damaged and one man drowned.
THE chief clerk of the Paris Postoffice has
stolen $4,000 in postal money orders and
fed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

Some author of boys stories might
find it to his advantage to hire Ahmed
Ben Ahmar, whom France has just
awarded the Cross of the Legion Of
Honor for bravery as lion killer, to
relate his adventures as material for the
children's magazines. Algeria, in
twenty-six years, he killed over 200
lions. One lion is estimated to destroy
$4,000 worth of capital annually, and to
keep it up for ten years at least; so the
lion killer saved Algeria about S., 900,
000
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

According to the New Orleans Times
Democrat, Fort Jackson, the only defence
and protection to New Orleans and to
the whole Mississippi valley, is endan'
gered by the river. A break in the
banks a short distance below the fort
has gradually grown into alarge stream,
filling up the neighboring bays and rem
dering it probable that the site OF the
fort will be undermined by the river dur.
ing high water.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

A citizen of Pocahontas, Iowa, has in,
vented new fuel, which bids fair to
take the place of coal in the prairie
countries. He grinds cornstalks and
coarse prairie grass together and moist
ems them. This palp is pressed into
blocks about twelve inches long and
four inches thick, and dried. One block
will give an hours steady heat. This
fuel can be produced for 50 ton, and
the inventor claims that it will last twice
as long as the best soft COAL
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

The Farm and Household thinks, as q
rule, the farmers of to-day are as intelli-
gent and independent as any other class
of people; AID that city people have
their troubles and heartaches the farmer
knows not of. Many of them can scarcely
get along, and their pride leads them to
initiate their more wealthy neighbors.
The merchant and manufacturer depend
upon the farmer for their success in trade.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02
THE FOOD QUESTION.

A National Convention in OppoSi-
ton to Aduiteration.
A National Food Convention, comprising
about ono hundred delegates from New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Cincinnati, Denver, and other cities,
has been in session at Washington.
The purpose Of the gathering was to discuss n
bill to prevent the traffic in adulteratsd arti-
cles of food and drink. The III .mbers OF the
convention stated that State laws
and municipal ordinances are inetfect-
garine law, thay declared, is a Leuetit
to the honest dealer and protection to the
public, ard they pointed to it as an example
of legislation which is desired by honest
dealers in flour, coffee, spices, etc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

The Australian colony Of Victoria will
have 1000 900 bushels more wheat to
export this year than last, and American
shippers will have that much extra COM
netition in the markets of Western Eu-
rome. But 1000, 900 bushels is not much
whe,t "a thiprs 90 now.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02
Washington.

PosrMAsrERs nominated by the President:
Edwin S. Merrill, Winchendon, MnsS.
William ]. Coogau, Pitts6eld, Mass
John H. Mills, Canton, N. Y; Charles
P. Van Zandt, Walden, N. Y; Mary
Sue Sellers, Marion, s. c.; A. L. D. Conrad,
Baton Rouge, La. James II. Crane, Pitts
field, ILL.,; George A. ,Kellenberger, Men
dota, H.; Tryon Bailey, Chagrin Falls.
Ohio; Stephen B. Atwood. Conneaut, Ohio;
George W. Carey, North Yakima, Washing,
ton Territory.
THE bills granting pensions to Mrs. Logan
and Mrs. Blair, widow of General Frank
Blair, have been defeated in the House Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions The vote was
a party one-seven Democrats against and
five Republicans for the bills.
THE grand total Of the fund being raised
for General Logan's widow is over $780, 600.
TWENTY Congressman participated in q
meeting of Protection Democrats in Washing
ton, and agreed upon tariff bill for intro
duction in the House.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

According to the Rail0ay Age there
were forty-fve wrecked railroads, with
1857 miles of main line, sold under
foreclosure in 1886. These properties
were capitalized at 1914, 1oa,' 700, or
about $50, 900 a mile.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

AT Middletown, Ohio, policeman took
ont his revolver to show n neighhor how he
would treat tramps if they mol stei him. In
returning the weapon to his pocket it was ac-
cidcntalIy discharged aud his si1-year-old
son was INSTANTLY killel
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

"What becomes of al the counterfeit
coins2" excitedly asks an exchange.
.NIost of them, the Chicago Tribune
emphatically responds, eventually find
their way into the contribution boxes" "
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

DURING the past year s13, oS4, ,9s6 was cx-
pended for educational purposes in tho State
of New York. OF this amount S,lG, ,26S
was for teachers wages. There arc 3l,:S5
school teachers and ,7J5,073 school children
in the State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

THE total foreign commerce of the United
States last year was Sl,426, ,OlS,632, or SEQ
S27, 100 more than in the previous year. OF
the whole amount, that through the port Of
New York was $S02, ,5G5, ,0l5.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

A TUNNEL twelve miles long is to BE- run
in Nevada County, Cal, for the purpose of
draining certain mines in that section. A
company with s1,0U0,00O capital has been
formed to do the work.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

A SENTIMENTAL young man thus feel
ingly expresses himself: "Even as nat
ure benevolently guards the roses with
thorns, does she endow women with
pins
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

An Australian has invented an electrical
machine-gun, which he claims is capable OF
firing l20 rounds every few seconds from
any position and in any direction
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-31

Soak some txpi0ca over night aud IN
the morning boil until it is perfectly
clear. adding more water from time to
time as needed slice five nice peaches
with silver knife and sprinkle liber'
ally with sugar, when youN take the
tapioca from the tOve. stir the peaches
into it. Eat cold .ilh sugar and cream
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-31

For m particulars tickets call on u...-u.
Agent, Dallas Texas w. +, ~
Ticket Agent, T. r Depot ana Ma
Dallas B. w. MCCULLOUGH e. r. l. A,pAA''
GRANT, General Manager Dsnas
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-31
A Personal Advertisement.

Little Miss Washburn wandered quite
a distance from her Sedhtry home at
a well-known SUNNI resort, not many
weeks ago. and col In { find her way
back. But she was lot bit disma,ed.
She Immediately lifted up her voice
and shouted to the fr3ll capacity of her
lungs:
I'm Grace WasIh burn and I'm lostl
I'm Grace washbut p and rm lost"
This she repea until it reached
the ears of some o who knew where
she lived. and she [as escorted home
--Bosfsn Bsdsa.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-15

went first, sweeping swiftly forward. He
forded the river at Point of Rocks, thirty
miles below Harper's Ferry, and raised the
Confederate flag in Maryland.
When jackson reached midstream crossing
the Potomac, it reused all the suppressed en-
thusiasm of his nature. He paused a mo-
ment, gazed across to the northern shore and
waved his hat His soldiers caught the move
ment; cheer On cheer rent the air, the bands
struck up Maryland, My Maryland,n and
ten thousand voices caught the refrain. So
the Confederate army entered Maryland.
Lee followed Immediately behind jackson.
The Confederate army amounted to about
10000 men in all. They advanced swiftly on
the town of Frederick, Md, reaching and
taking possession of it September g.
''The Lord bless your ragged, dirty souls,
said a Jealous southern woman to the adj
vance.
The march had been so rapid that thou
sands dropped by the way and only 60,000
entered Frederick. If there had been any
thing triumphant or spectacular i'll their ap-
pearance, had they come with waving ban
ners and snow white plumes and shining new
uniforms, they would have obtained far more
recruits for tie southern army. The instinct
for the dramatic, the poetic and the pictur-
esque, ever alive in the southern breast,
would not have been appealed to in vain.
But Lees men, brave and tried soldiers
though they were, were dirty and ragged and
hungry. Many of them had no shoes, and
marched with bleeding feet and travel stained
garments. 1t was not very poetic, neither
inviting. The recruits Lee and jackson had
fondly hoped for were rot obtained in any
great numbers. When it came to
the scratch, Maryland seemed more Fed
eral than Confederate, yet it was at
Frederick that the incident which gave
rise to Whittiers poem Of "Barbara Fret.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-15

tdcduUi1Ss NAG4o was S&SCf
The war had UP to that time been chiefly
waged in what was regarded as Confederate
territory, Stonewall jackson had long been
eager to change this tactics and carry the
war into Union territory Both he and Lee
had been casting an eye over Maryland.
Why not cross the Potomac into Maryland
by one of Jackson's famous foot cavalry
marches, sIlbsist on the country and threaten
Washington from the northa
There was feeling in the south tla5 Mary
land, geographically, politically and socially
belonged to the Confederacy. The state con-
tanned many secession sympathizers. 1t was
believed that the sight of Lee and Jackson
and the stars and bars once within their bor
ders would rouse all the Confederate enthu-
siasm that slumbered in the breasts Of the
Marylanders.
Gems. Lee and Jackson resolved to invade
Maryland. Zee issued proclamation to the
people of that state, telling them that he was
coming among them to aid them In throwing
off that foreign yoke which had inflicted such
wrongs and outrages upon the citizens OF a
commonwealth allied to the states of the
south by the strongest ties.
Col Bradley johnson, a Confederate Mary
lander, was authorized to get recruits for the
southern army III his native state. He invited
his fellow citizens to join the Confederate
ranks. eve have arms for you" he said.
~ ct each man provide himself with stout
pair of shoes, a good blanket and tin cup.
Jacksons men have no baggage"
lee only waited for D. II. Hills brigasej
from Richmond to join him, thus increasing
his battle worn and storm beaten army some
what: then, September 2, he pushed on to-
wards the Potomac and the north. Jackson
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-15

whenever fighting was to be done. ne
served with the army in the east.
Before the battle Of South Mountain Lees
army was widely scattered. Mcclellan had
nearly 100000 men atlhis command, Lee less
than &c, 600 all told. Mcclellan recognized
the situation, and made known his intention
to "cut the enemy in two and beat him in de-
tail" Gen. Longstreet was at Hagelstown
with his men, and Between that and Harpers
Ferry, in Virginia, Lees lines were stretched
out very thin.
If McClellan's army could pass through
Turner's Gap in Sonth Mountain, he would
have Lees army really cut in two, the forces
Of Long street and D. H. Hill being on his
right, the rest of them, fully half. around
Harper's Ferry. Movement with all speed
was demanded
Sept. 13, Lee heard that the Union army
was approaching Turner's Gap Hill was
faced about to meet them, and delay them
until Lees forces could put themselves to-
gether again. Hill left Boonsboro with all
haste, and marched up South Mountain to
Turner's Gap. He reached the top in the
early morning of the 14th.
Another Sunday battle was that of South
Mountain. Fox's Gap was pass through
which what was called the old Sharpsburg
road passed, and the next battle after South
Mountain was to be fought at Sharpsburg
Gen. Garland's Confederate brigade met
Coxs advance at Fox's Gap. Garland him
self was killed about 10 o'clock, CALAMITY
fighting, and his brigade routed. He was yet
a young man, end his death was greatly Ia
mented at the south.
In the fight at Fox's Gap the advance line
of Cox's brigade was the Twenty third Ohio
regiment, led by Lieut.. Col. r. B. Hayes.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-15

BARBARA FRIETCH1E. years Old. Her
United States flag was displayed from one of
the little windows IL the roof when Stonewall
jackson came to town, where
She leaned far out on the window sill,
And shook it forth with right good will.
Mcclellan had been puzzled to know what
Lee would do next after the battle of Chan
tily. He knew by September that they
had crossed into Maryland. He followed,
but was uncertain which route Lee would
take from Frederick. He advanced on that
town, but slowly and cautiously, overesti-
mating, as he had done before at Rich
mond, the strength of Lees army.
He reached Frederick Sept 12 and occu-
pied it after a skirmish with Lees rear
guard. The Confederates had evacuated the
place, but where had they gone now! He
found out in singular way. A copy of Gen.
Lees orders to his commanding generals had
been left in D. Fl. Hills headquarters at
Frederick, when the Confederate army quit
ted there September TO- The order was issued
September j, and was three Gays old when it
was handed to Mcclellan. It told him all he
wanted to know.
II Popes dispatch book had been captured
by the Confederates q month before, and the
avenged now. The fatal special order No
191" revealed that HaIper's Ferry Va. was
the great objective point of Lee This special
order became known through the south as the
"Lost Dispatch" Gen. D. II. Hill however,
declares that it misled Mcclellan, and that
it did not amount to anything anyway.
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GEN. ROBERT TOOMBS. the north, Mt Union
college, New York. In 1861 he was in tho
United States senate from Georgia. On the
9TH of January he made his last speech in thc
senate, IL was so remarkable that old MEM
bers remember it and talk of it TO this day
he demanded the right to take slaves into all
the territories of the Union and hold them as
property. He demanded, likewise, that slave
property should be protected in the free states
"You answer MOI" lie shouted at is the
price OF my allegiance / would rather see
the population of my own, my native land
beneath the sod than that they should support
Tor one hour such government"
Gen. Toombs died not long since in Georgia,
boasting TO the last that he had never been
reconstructed"
For six weeks after Antietam the Union
army remained inactive in Maryland. Nov.
they crossed again into Virginia. McClel.
Ian was preparing for another campaign
against Lee, whose army had by this time
been increased by recruiting to nearly 10000
men. Lee, when Mcclellan crossed the Poto-
mac, retreated southwark. He himself, with
half his army, marched up the Shenandoah
valley, thence to Culpepper, where he took
position, jackson, with the cavalry. was left
three days behind him, to watch Mcclellan,
and il possible attack him. This division OF
Lees force gave the Federals favorable op-
portunity for attack. Mcclellan was about
to take advantage of it, He massed his army
tear W WaFrenton, six miles north of Lee. He
had resolved on battle speedily. He was even
Ilrectlng the disposition of his forces for the
attack when, ali unexpected 10 him, an order
anne Nov. 7, relieving him from command,
ana appointing Gen. Burnside in his place.